- Women, Fiction, Social life and customs, Canadian fiction (fictional works by one author)
In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from exotic Australia.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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- gravecomic
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- Author
- Alice Munro
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart Ltd, Klett-Cotta, McClelland & Stewart
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- Spanish, English, nor, dan
- ISBN
- 9788205238336
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Alice Ann Munro (/mʌnˈroʊ/, née Laidlaw /ˈleɪdlɔː/; born 10 July 1931) was a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro's work has been described as revolutionizing the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time. Her stories have been said to "embed more than announce, reveal more than parade."
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